GOP Supports Earmark Ban … for Now

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced Monday that he will join a GOP effort to ban congressional earmarks.

McConnell went on to state:

And unless people like me show the American people that we’re willing to follow through on small or even symbolic things, we risk losing them on our broader efforts to cut spending and rein in government.

Perhaps Senator McConnell read columns like this one that appeared over the weekend, because last week he was against banning earmarks.